In his late career, Peter Behrens was Berlin’s most successful architect, but in his early career, he joined a group of architects and designers who formed an art colony in Darmstadt, Germany. There, without training in architecture, he built himself a house which is one of my favorite domestic environments of the period. While its exterior of green bricks and red roof was clearly inspired by the brick Gothic buildings of Northern and Central Europe, the interiors manifested a personal vision of the Jugendstil style, with some innovative features, such as the white kitchen and the crystalline elements. .